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youngalfred@lemm.ee
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I went looking for the implied ‘A’ language but couldn’t find it. Did find this though:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages

Surprising how many single letter names there are.

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lordnikon@lemmy.world
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Ada would be a good stand in for A based on the historical context of the name.

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leopold@lemmy.kde.social
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B was based on BCPL, which I assume is where the name came from.

But the actual A language would be APL, which stands for A Programming Language. It’s a few years older than B and was pretty popular, so it could’ve influenced the name.

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LeFantome@programming.dev
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It is hard for me to believe APL was popular. I forgot that Microsoft claimed to be making it for Motorola and Intel.

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Handles@leminal.space
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A Programming Language

Gotta admire the wherewithal of continuing down the alphabet rather than just “Another Programming Language”, through “Yet Another Programming Language” to “Dude, Where’s My Programming Language”.

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ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works
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That trend probably didn’t exist at the time

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